Machinery for forming hat-bodies



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAS. S. TAYLOR, OF DAlNBURY, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINERY FOR FORMING- HAT-BODIES.

y Specification of Itetters Patent No. 15,903, dated October 14, 1856.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAS. S. TAYLOR, of Danbury, in the county ofY Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Machinery for Manufacturing Hats; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification.

The invention relates to an improvement on machinery used and known as machinery for forming fur hats.

My improvementl consists, first, of substituting a circular revolving feed table in place of the endless feed belts or aprons now in use, and, second, by substituting a revolving brush operating in such a manner as to wet and felt the hat or web in place of the mechanism now used.

A, in the drawing represents a frame which supports the different parts of the machinery.

B, is a revolving feed table which is supported on the shaft D, to which motion is communicated through the pinion F, by means of a screw G cut on the shaft H.

K, is a driving pulley fastened to the shaft H, from which motion is communicated to different parts of the machine.

L, is a cone fastened onto the mouth of an exhaust by means of springs.

O. is ar picker which picks up and blows the fur onto the cone. y

P, P, are two conical rollers which revolve together in such a manner as to draw the fur up betweenthem, from the revolving feed table to the picker.

R, is the exhaust which draws the air through the pipe 3 from the cone.

T is the brush which is operated by means of a pulley in` such a manner as to throw the water onto the hat as it is being formed to completely saturate it preparatory to removing it from the cone.

Having thus described the construction I will now proceed to describe the operation of the machine.

The fur or material to be used in the manufacture of hats is placed onto the feed table. Motion is communicated to the machine by revolving the shaft H, by hand or tion, picking the fur from the conical rollers and suspends it in the air preparatory to its being drawn on to the exhausted perforated cone.` This cone is revolved by means of a band `passing around pulleys 4, 4. In front and a trifle under the cone is placed a brush which revolves in a vat or kettle of water to which brush motion is communicated by a band passing over pulleys 6. The same band also gives motion to the picker C), and also to the exhaust fans R; The rapid motion given to the brush throws the water fromV the vat up onto the hat as it is formed on the cone thereby saturating it preparatory to removing it from the cone without tearing or rupturing it.

In the manufacturing of most 4hats it is absolutely necessary that the hats should be made the thickest in the edge or brim and the thickest in the tip. N ow it will be seen thaty by placing the fur or material to be used evenly` on the feed table, that as the table revolves, the outer edge revolving in a circle feeds faster than it does from the inner circle or nearer the center, thus forming the hats on the cone in the requisite proportions without the use of tubes or trunks to shift or vary the material used, before it is drawn on to the cone.

I do not wish to claim a perforated cone or exhaust either of which are well known devices, used in machinery for forming fur hats. Neither do I claim a picker to pick up or blow the fur on to the cone as vthat is a well known device used in machinery for picking fur, wool or cotton. Neither do I claim moistening or wetting the hat preparatory to removing it from the cone; but

What I do claim as new is 1. The revolving feed table in combination with the picker cone and exhaust operating in the manner and for the purpose as set forth.

y 2. I do not claim the principle of wetting or moistening the hat when formed on an exhausting cone, for that is a principle well merous jets of hot water in the hardening for the purpose of nioistening the fur, as it or wetting process as that is a combination is thrown upon the cone, substantially in found in D. Barnums patent, July 1st, 1851, the manner described.

but'what I do claim, as new, and desire to JAMES S. TAYLOR.

secure by Letters Patent is, the combination itnessest of the revolving brush, arranged as de- GEO. C. LYON,y

scribed with the revolving perforated cone H. L. HIGBY. 

